Description
Signed limited edition of Big Game Hunting by Theodore Roosevelt.
Large quarto, xxiv, 328pp, viii, 476pp, 55 illustrations, gilt title over morocco inlays, original beige buckram boards, uncut. Light wear to cloth, faint toning to spine. Contemporary endpapers. From a limited edition of 1000 copies, all signed by President Theodore Roosevelt beneath photograph on frontispiece. Complete with 55 full page illustrations. (Wheelock, 7) (Cole & Vail, A17b) This is number 995 of 1000.
The limited edition of Big Game Hunting was issued by the Knickerbocker Press in four separate bindings: full buckram, half morocco, full morocco and by special order in full levant. Big Game Hunting comprises writings titled “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman” and “The Wilderness Hunter,” with illustrations by artists such as Remington, Frost, Sanford and Gifford.
